{"id":327,"date":"2016-06-15T20:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/?p=327"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:43:11","slug":"paper-on-bilingualism-and-sound-change-in-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/2016\/06\/15\/paper-on-bilingualism-and-sound-change-in-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper on bilingualism and sound change in Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research\u00a0article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/sites\/default\/files\/08_92.2Yao.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\">On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese<\/span><\/a>&#8221; (Yao &amp; Chang, 2016) has been published\u00a0in the June issue of <i>Language<\/i>, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract<\/span>: This study investigates the source and status of a recent sound change in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that has been attributed to language contact with Mandarin. The change involves two vowels, \/e\/ and \/\u025b\/, reported to be merged three decades ago but produced distinctly in contemporary Shanghainese. Results of two production experiments show that speaker age, language mode (monolingual Shanghainese vs. bilingual Shanghainese-Mandarin), and crosslinguistic phonological similarity all influence the production of these vowels. These findings provide evidence for language contact as a linguistic means of merger reversal and are consistent with the view that contact phenomena originate from cross-language interaction within the bilingual mind.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this article is accompanied by online appendices, located <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/619543\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research\u00a0article entitled &#8220;On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese&#8221; (Yao &amp; Chang, 2016) has been published\u00a0in the June issue of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Abstract: This study investigates the source and status of a recent sound change in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}